Few of the consulting companies offer introductory courses online making it even more accessible, but I recommend taking the hands-on courses face-to-face with other participants to make the learning experience real life and pertinent to your current business environment.

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But she calls the affair a valuable learning experience that helps her sympathize with other people's problems.

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As an added bonus to saving school districts money that can be reinvested in other educational resources, energy efficiency efforts provide a valuable hands-on learning experience for students that can strengthen their math, science and communication skills, the alliance reports.

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Despite the fact that you received free tuition and on-campus employment as a result of the fact that your father is a professor at your alma mater, you are not owed anything by Lehigh University other than the provision of classes, learning resources, access to faculty and facilities in which to experience said learning and perhaps a student parking spot.

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Bottom line: by relying on N-of-1 anecdotes rather than a more systematically gathered dataset from their own patients, physicians miss out on profound learning opportunities, and patients miss the opportunity to benefit from the collective experience of each other.

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